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European safety nets, and government grants have helped open source projects a lot, and this is a big reason almost all of these projects end up being developed/maintained by folks from EU. Even if the sponsorships could hire 2-3x as much man power elsewhere in the world.

Another big thing is govt aligned sponsorships are not for software but for generating jobs/work within their borders.

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Yes, but SF salaries are still twice German salaries and probaby 4x Eastern Europe salaries.

yeah but the us folks aren't working out of SF and generally these projects have mostly flat pay structures (unsure if that exactly fits but a few comments make it seem like it checks out)

I think if someone is maintaining open source software, they're already not worrying about making that much money.

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